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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (100670)3/10/2000 8:23:00 PM
From: Tony Viola  Respond to of 186894
 
Jim, >With P-IIIs yielding so well...8.4 gig HDs are low end...why can't Microsoft get the x-box out by Christmas...?
Something doesn't add up...


It's "only" software.

Tony



To: Jim McMannis who wrote (100670)3/11/2000 1:03:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Respond to of 186894
 
McMannis - Our Very Own Ja Ja Man

Re: ".why can't Microsoft get the x-box out by Christmas...?
Something doesn't add up..."

Software, Jimmy, Software.

X-BOX will run a stripped down Windows 2000 Kernel which must be re-written.

And Game Developers have to write applications.

Of course, if Microsoft had used an AthWiper, I'm sure Microsoft could have had the X-BOX machine on the market by next Friday.

Paul